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Grass will be greener for Roddick at Wimbledon

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Monday, June 18, 2007

For Andy Roddick, the brief clay-court season is a necessary evil, the steaming spinach (or lima beans, if you will) that your mother insisted was good for you. For three weeks earlier this spring, the 24-year-old American faced a steady diet of dirt in Rome, Poertschach (Austria) and, finally, in Paris. Roddick won three of his six matches and exited in the first round of the French Open, losing in four sets to Igor Andreev, who was ranked No. 125 in the world. And now comes the sizzling stea ...

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